At one point, in a one-bedroom apartment on Vine Street Kathy White had seven kids living in that one-bedroom apartment. Her family members had nowhere else to live and so she took the in. Many local residents double-up because the housing market makes it hard to find affordable housing.
Cazzie Russell, who starred on four National Basketball Association teams, winning a championship in 1970 with the New York Knicks, is scheduled to keynote a breakfast gathering at 10 a.m. Friday, 17, 2022 in the Arcadia Ballroom of the Radisson Plaza Hotel & Suites in downtown Kalamazoo.
With the Memorial Day Weekend as the traditional kickoff of the summer season and the hope that Kalamazoo weather will stay warm, residents of the city’s core neighborhoods – those without their own swimming pools – will be looking for opportunities to cool off. The City of Kalamazoo has some answers for that, and it’s looking to kick off the summer season with a party.
LISC-Kalamazoo will be the conduit for hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding through the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Section 4 Program. “HUD Section 4 is a specific pool of money to increase nonprofits’ capacity to do their work in specific areas,” says Beth Romeo, the assistant program officer at LISC Kalamazoo.
Soul Artistry has worked with more than a dozen area organizations to compile a list of this year’s events celebrating Juneteenth in Kalamazoo.
If all continues as planned, spaces for at least 60 unhoused individuals will be open by late June. The studio apartments in The LodgeHouse are intended for those with extremely low incomes currently living in a place that is not fit for human habitation, outdoors, in their car, or living in a hotel that they can’t afford.
Tami Rey has been certified to run for re-election to the Kalamazoo County Board of Commissioners. But those who support her wonder about an election system that – for the second time in less than a year – was poised to exclude an African-American from contention because of apparent mistakes in their paperwork.
Sisters in Business Michigan and Black Wall Street Kalamazoo are working to increase the access African-American entrepreneurs and their businesses have the funding and training they need.
NACD in Kalamazoo plans to begin the construction this year of four single-family houses on what are now vacant parcels of land as part of the neighborhood’s plan to see an increase in the amount of affordable housing as well as an increase in home ownership and business ownership.
What does it take to get to a point where housing projects funded by Kalamazoo County millage dollars can be approved? Here's a quick peek at some of the process needed to get the work done.
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